Arrayed ultrasonic wind speed and direction measurement based on the BNF-FLOC-MUSIC algorithm

An arrayed ultrasonic wind measurement method based on the BNF-FLOC-MUSIC algorithm is proposed to address the issue of low measurement accuracy and poor noise suppression capabilities of current array wind measurement methods in impulse noise backgrounds. The proposed method utilizes an array structure consisting of one transmitting ultrasonic sensor and five receiving sensors. Continuous sampling is performed leveraging this structure, and the received array signals are processed using a bounded nonlinear function (BNF). Subsequently, the fractional lower-order covariance (FLOC) operations are applied to suppress impulse noise’s influence further. Finally, combining these steps with the Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm enables high-precision wind speed and direction measurement. The effectiveness and superiority of the method are examined through simulation experiments and actual measurement systems, and the errors of wind speed and wind direction angle in actual measurement are 1.2% and 2°, respectively, which satisfy the design requirements of the ultrasonic anemometer. [Display omitted] •Wind speed and direction are estimated using array signal processing algorithms.•Continuous wind measurement is realized.•Achieve accurate wind measurement under alpha-stable distributed noise background.•The algorithm is improved to further suppress noise and improve accuracy.